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UPDATE 4:38 P.M.

Two people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after their car veered in front of a logging truck on Highway 6, just past Coldstream Ranch on the way to Lavington.

“A four-door sedan heading eastbound veered to the right shoulder, braked hard and then veered left across the highway,” explained Cpl. Spencer Hornoi. “It was then broadsided by the logging truck behind it.”

He said the driver and a passenger in the car were taken to Vernon Jubilee Hospital but the logging truck driver was not injured.

Police were called in at 2:27 p.m. on Friday.

An eye witness to the aftermath said the truck was in a ditch by the railway tracks.

The highway is open to alternating traffic, said Hornoi, who added that it will take some time to clean up the scene.

“It will be a process to unload the logging truck. The load has shifted on the trailer substantially.”

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